After last year's blank, this was an exceptional year for rare migrants on the Isles of Scilly.
 62.020 Etiella zinckenella; 19/10/2018; St Agnes  63.011 Uresipheta gilvata; 15/10/2018; St Marys  70.058 Costaconvexa polygrammata (Many-lined); 16/10/2018; St Marys  73.005 Ctenoplusia limbirena (Scar Bank Gem); 16/10/2018; St Marys |  63.055 Herpetogramma licarsisalis; 12/10/2018; St Marys  69.018 Hippotion celerio (Silver-striped Hawkmoth); 13/10/2018; St Marys  73.090 Galgula partita (Wedgling); 14/10/2018; St Agnes  73.200 Lithophane (Lithophane) semibrunnea (Tawny Pinion); 14/10/2018; St Agnes |
Migrant totals are recorded below - the numbers show total obtained in 18 nights of trapping / highest number for a single night and / number of nights on which the species was obtained.
| Plutella xylostella (Diamond-back Moth) Uresiphita gilvata Udea ferrugalis (Rusty Dot Pearl) Palpita vitrealis Nomophila noctuella (Rush Veneer) Cydalima perspectalis (Box-tree Moth) Herpetogramma licarsisalis (Grass Webworm) Eudonia angustea Acherontia atropos (Death's-head Hawk-moth) Macroglossum stellatarum (Hummingbird Hawk-moth) Hippotion celerio (Silver-striped Hawk-moth) Rhodometra sacraria (Vestal) Nycterosea obstipata (Gem) Costaconvexa polygrammata Many-lined Hypena obsitalis (Bloxworth Snout) Chrysodeixis chalcites (Golden Twin-spot) Autographa gamma (Silver Y) Heliothis peltigera (Bordered Straw) Helicoverpa armigera (Scarce Bordered Straw) Spodoptera exigua (Small Mottled Willow) Athetis hospes (Porter's Rustic) Mythimna vitellina (Delicate) Mythimna unipuncta (White-speck) Mythimna l-album (L-album Wainscot) Leucania loreyi (Cosmopolitan) Peridroma saucia (Pearly Underwing) Agrotis ipsilon (Dark Sword-grass) Ochropleura leucogaster (Radford's Flame Shoulder) | 14/11/4 1/1/1 - ~200 British records, seen before, but new for my trap 541/159/18 37/22/5 32/18/9 1/1/1 - regular in my Essex garden but FIRST FOR SCILLY 1/1/1 - 15th British Record, new for me, FIRST FOR St MARYS 23/5/8 1/1/1 ~15 British records annually on average, my 2nd Day-flyer, seen on several occasions 1/1/1 - ~250 British records, new for me, FIRST FOR SCILLY 33/9/9 2/1/2 1/1/1 - ~47th British Record, new for me 1/1/1 (on ivy) seen before, but first one obtained by me 1/1/1 ~500 British records, seen before but new for my trap 22/6/11 1/1/1 13/3/6 (Generally much less scarce than Bordered Straw!) 8/5/3 1/1/1 - ~150 British records, seen before but new for my trap 60/10/16 367/74/18 2/2/1 2/1/2 1/1/1 11/4/7 4/1/4 ~200 British records |
Other rare migrant species seen and photographed by me but obtained by others were;
| Etiella zinckenella Ctenoplusia limbirena (Scar Bank Gem) Galgula partita (Wedgling) Lithophane semibrunnea (Tawny Pinion) | Robin Hammond, St Agnes - 20th British Record Mick Scott, St Marys - 24th British Record Dave Grundy, St Agnes - 3rd British Record Dave Grundy, St Agnes - supposedly not rare, but new for me |
Those species with images above have been added to the site this month - bring the total to 1532 species.
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